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Aporia
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ISBN10: 1885586280
ISBN13: 9781885586285
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Published: Oct 14 2025
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781885586285
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Published: Oct 14 2025
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Have a talk with a ghost or a duck or contest the destroyers of the land, listen to the roos and slow worms, marvel and question and rage and love the language with John Kinsella's Aporia.
Aporia is a collectionsearching for logic where logic is hard to find or maybe can't be found. From
the death of the poet's father, to considering the complex, troubled, and often
distressing relationship between humans and non-human life, and through a sense
of ghosts being materially present even when we doubt their existence, we
undertake a journey in which reality and creative conception are in tension.
This tension is embodied in the figure of the poet Hölderlin, and also through
moments in Ovid's Metamorphosis, ongoing obsessions for Kinsella which
he constantly circles back to, reconsiders, and departs from. Whether
conversing with ghosts or the living, with animals or plants, these are poems
concerned with transformative relationships with and within the natural world.
Kangaroos, echidnas, ducks, owls, deer, slow worms, and many other creatures
from around the world inhabit these pages, finding their own way through to
autonomy and self-declaration as the poet argues with himself over the dynamics
of life and death.
distressing relationship between humans and non-human life, and through a sense
of ghosts being materially present even when we doubt their existence, we
undertake a journey in which reality and creative conception are in tension.
This tension is embodied in the figure of the poet Hölderlin, and also through
moments in Ovid's Metamorphosis, ongoing obsessions for Kinsella which
he constantly circles back to, reconsiders, and departs from. Whether
conversing with ghosts or the living, with animals or plants, these are poems
concerned with transformative relationships with and within the natural world.
Kangaroos, echidnas, ducks, owls, deer, slow worms, and many other creatures
from around the world inhabit these pages, finding their own way through to
autonomy and self-declaration as the poet argues with himself over the dynamics
of life and death.
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